Why the Justices of the US Supreme Court are such sports

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When President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court of the United
States, he playfully pointed out that she was a die-hard New York Mets fan,
while Justice Sonia Sotomayor was an equally devoted New York Yankees
supporter who would wear team colours under her robes at Kagan’s
inauguration.

Sotomayor, no stranger to sports law, helped to end the 1995 Major League
Baseball strike with a ruling for the players’ union against the owners of
Major League Baseball in their collective bargaining dispute.

An informal photograph of Kagan published in The Wall Street Journal showed
her playing softball some